Artist: Grasshoppa
Album: Lost In Gray Matter EP
Catalog#: EXP023
Archive.org: Visit Contact:[grasshopper][at][experimedia.net]From the second you hit play, you know it's on. This EP is a 37 minute no-holds-barred attack on your eardrums. The beats are relentless in their insistence, and the melodies and pads are about as overflowing and volcanic as you could imagine. Simply put, this is expressionist drill 'n' bass. the songs are extremely glitchy and fast-paced, yet hang in the air like a haze around your sphere of perception. Thin, bell-like chiming and strumming floats on a thick rockbase of orgy-like percussion. "Drown In Lena River" takes you on a ride through a funhouse of contrasting organic plant-life, while "owiiFF" seems to struggle just to maintain its own static form. The pieces come off, ultimately, as having a natural child-like wonder, and an awe and a playfulness that other artist struggle to pretentiously invent in their music.